Strange thigh muscle of Eliud Kipchoge

I'm starting to believe it could be fascia instead of muscle - scars ofc.

That would explain that they're strictly horizontal and maybe that you only see them during the knee flexion.

Where are the LR kenyans when you need them?

Overuse injury from intra-muscular injections.

rjm33 wrote:

Really?

"Ghetto" just adds to how cool Eliud Kipchoge is:

2) Tells other Olympic marathoners during the race…"Don't worry guys. I am not going…yet." Classic.

Hilarious, just like Zatopek to Jim Peters, so demoralizing.

rjm33 wrote:

Really?

"Ghetto" just adds to how cool Eliud Kipchoge is:

1) Uses WiginsShavedHead™ performance enhancement…and wears a hat at the same time!

2) Tells other Olympic marathoners during the race…"Don't worry guys. I am not going…yet." Classic.

3) Striations

4) Greatest of All Time Marathoner in this solar system.

5) "Ghetto"

6) Strange thigh muscle that nobody can figure out.

7) Eliud may be an ET. (That is just a coincidence.)

8) Eliud Kipchoge does NOT wear the new NikeAeroAlbertoSpeedSuitâ„¢:

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/67/ce/df/67cedfab137bdbbc04abddac026685ae.jpg

As you can see...the suit has an extra baton for US Relay Teams.

Go Dennis Mitchell!!!

What a pic, I've seen worse options............the present relay set up.

Bad Wigins wrote:

It is not striations, it is wave harmonics. The R. femoris doesn't work like monoarticulate muscles, lengthening and shortening overall, rather it stays roughly the same length and alternately lengthens and shortens on the top and bottom. This is because the hip and knee joints flex and extend in opposite phase. The hamstrings work the same way.

So it basically is like a stretched out slinky, where if you move the middle toward one end and let go, it oscillates back and forth in a wave action. This low frequency oscillation creates higher frequency harmonics along the muscle that become visible at certain points in the stride.

This is a nice, creative explanation and probably closest to the truth. Rectus femoris contributes to hip flexion and knee extension (see

). The common feature in all of these photographs is that the knee is flexed and the hip extended, so whatever we are seeing is a consequence of the muscle being in a state of relaxation.

Eliud has repeatedly said that he is old school. What you see is a tattoo, part of African traditional body markings practiced mainly by Nilotic group of tribes of which Kalenjin is among.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5qfhcRE7P6E/VDkaq9BCIvI/AAAAAAAAB0Y/s880gtIe7kQ/s1600/dassanech-man-scarification_12067_600x450.jpg

The striations are not located on the Rectus femoris.

try again wrote:

One Trick Pony wrote:

This is a nice, creative explanation and probably closest to the truth. Rectus femoris contributes to hip flexion and knee extension (see

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8198199

). The common feature in all of these photographs is that the knee is flexed and the hip extended, so whatever we are seeing is a consequence of the muscle being in a state of relaxation.

The striations are not located on the Rectus femoris.

Why did you have to point that out? It is still a creative explanation.

Eliud Kipchoge has a slinky harmonic wave frequency generator in his thigh. Wigins says that is what it is.

That is good enough for me.

TWRE wrote:

Do you have any idea what is it under Kipchoge's skin on his thigh muscle? I remmember Martin Lel had similar thing.

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/08/22/sports/22MARATHONweb1/22MARATHONweb1-superJumbo.jpg

Seems to me like Eluid Kipchoge had surgery and had some implants put in between his thigh muscles and skin. these implants produce electrical impulses the the thigh muscle that make the thigh want to contract at a specific rate when the device is triggered. It seems to me like another form of cheating the system.

Cheating the system wrote:

TWRE wrote:

Do you have any idea what is it under Kipchoge's skin on his thigh muscle? I remmember Martin Lel had similar thing.

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/08/22/sports/22MARATHONweb1/22MARATHONweb1-superJumbo.jpg

Seems to me like Eluid Kipchoge had surgery and had some implants put in between his thigh muscles and skin. these implants produce electrical impulses the the thigh muscle that make the thigh want to contract at a specific rate when the device is triggered. It seems to me like another form of cheating the system.

THIS....

The hip isn't fully extended anymore, it's already flexing at the top. Ozbilen on the far left is closer to full extension, and near-zero knee flexion coinciding.

Kipchoge's knee is flexed but probably not fully, if his left foot stays above his right knee in the recovery, then the knee will flex further as the hip flexes. I guess I misstated the phase - the hip and knee flex in phase, not in opposite phase. What's opposite is the action of the R. femoris across each joint. When the knee and hip are flexed, it is relaxed on the bottom and contracted on top. When the knee and hip are extended, it is contracted on the bottom and relaxed on top.

Imagine if both ends of a worm grabbed ahold of something immobile, and then alternately tried to pull those things. A sort of peristaltic contraction bouncing back and forth between the two ends.

You're saying Kipchoge has worms located superficially to his circumcised rectus femoris?

I can see this functioning as a performance enhancing parasite (PAP), where the worms secrete a fatigue-limiting buffer compound when lactate levels reach a critical level.

Of course, it would be necessary to train the worms to respond to a specific level of lactate. Thus, the presence of worm farms near training camps can be used to identify a highly advanced doping regime.

disgraceful_admin

"You're saying Kipchoge has worms located superficially to his circumcised rectus femoris?

I can see this functioning as a performance enhancing parasite (PAP), where the worms secrete a fatigue-limiting buffer compound when lactate levels reach a critical level.

Of course, it would be necessary to train the worms to respond to a specific level of lactate. Thus, the presence of worm farms near training camps can be used to identify a highly advanced doping regime."

This thread just gets funnier and funnier. Lizard man, Salamander, ET, Darth Vader. Now Kipchoge has performance enhancing parasites/worms in him eating lactic acid as it's created. Salazar's next innovation will involve him and Galen hanging around the public toilets of third world countries trying to catch something special.

What the hell is Dick Pound going to make of this?

WTF guys. Those are stretch marks. He loses muscle mass throughout the season, builds it at the start of the year. Once he starts racing heavily the muscle breaks down and the skin is too big for the muscle underneath. Good lord ppl.

It's from all the goddamn EPO constant high levels in the blood he starts to mutate into an aged lizard

Haha wrote:

It's from all the goddamn EPO constant high levels in the blood he starts to mutate into an aged lizard

Ha! seriously Trevor Noah and some of the other late night toffs should be sacked and replaced by some of contributors' to this thread.

Caster Semen.....ya wrote:

Haha wrote:

It's from all the goddamn EPO constant high levels in the blood he starts to mutate into an aged lizard

Ha! seriously Trevor Noah and some of the other late night toffs should be sacked and replaced by some of contributors' to this thread.

I do stand up even when I'm not running. Got any gigs for me?

Part of the bionic leg

They're scars as a result from "cutting" due to the depression he's felt from being an age cheat and PED user over the course of his career.